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The idea that there is such a thing as a human right to health has become pervasive. It has not only been acknowledged by a variety of international law documents and thus entered the political realm but is also defended in academic circles. Yet, despite its prominence the human right to health remains something of a mystery - especially with respect to its philosophical underpinnings. Addressing this unfortunate and intellectually dangerous insufficiency, this book critically assesses the stipulation that health is a human right which - as international law holds - derives from the inherent dignity of the human person. Scrutinising the concepts underlying this stipulation (health, rights, dignity), it shall conclude that such right cannot be upheld from a philosophical perspective.

Right to health. --- Health services accessibility. --- Access to health care --- Accessibility of health services --- Availability of health services --- Medical care --- Health care, Right to --- Health, Right to --- Medical care, Right to --- Right to health care --- Right to medical care --- Access --- Social rights --- Philosophy --- History of Philosophy --- Deontological ethics --- Dignity --- Human --- Human rights --- Moral rights --- Ontology --- Thomas Aquinas

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The first book to put the sacred and sensuous bronze statues from India's Chola dynasty in social contextFrom the ninth through the thirteenth century, the Chola dynasty of southern India produced thousands of statues of Hindu deities, whose physical perfection was meant to reflect spiritual beauty and divine transcendence. During festivals, these bronze sculptures-including Shiva, referred to in a saintly vision as "the thief who stole my heart"-were adorned with jewels and flowers and paraded through towns as active participants in Chola worship. In this richly illustrated book, leading art historian Vidya Dehejia introduces the bronzes within the full context of Chola history, culture, and religion. In doing so, she brings the bronzes and Chola society to life before our very eyes.Dehejia presents the bronzes as material objects that interacted in meaningful ways with the people and practices of their era. Describing the role of the statues in everyday activities, she reveals not only the importance of the bronzes for the empire, but also little-known facets of Chola life. She considers the source of the copper and jewels used for the deities, proposing that the need for such resources may have influenced the Chola empire's political engagement with Sri Lanka. She also investigates the role of women patrons in bronze commissions and discusses the vast public records, many appearing here in translation for the first time, inscribed on temple walls.From the Cholas' religious customs to their agriculture, politics, and even food, The Thief Who Stole My Heart offers an expansive and complete immersion in a community still accessible to us through its exquisite sacred art.Published in association with the Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts, National Gallery of Art, Washington, DCPlease note: All images in this ebook are presented in black and white and have been reduced in size.

Art and society --- Bronze sculpture, Indic --- Hindu sculpture --- Sculpture, Chola --- Sensuality in art. --- History --- Advocacy. --- Assassination. --- Begging the question. --- Brahmin. --- Bribery. --- Buddhism. --- Burial. --- Chola dynasty. --- Corrosion. --- Corruption. --- Criminal defense lawyer. --- Cynicism (philosophy). --- Deity. --- Deontological ethics. --- Desecration. --- Dhoti. --- Dikshitar. --- Disbarment. --- Drought. --- Earring. --- Epigraphy. --- Ethics. --- Fly-whisk. --- Gandaraditya. --- Good faith. --- Gothic architecture. --- Gothic art. --- Immorality. --- Incest. --- Kerala. --- Law in action. --- Lawyer. --- Layperson. --- Madurai. --- Mahadevi. --- Mandapa. --- Meal. --- Mephistopheles. --- Morality. --- Nataraja. --- Navalur. --- Obligation. --- Pandyan dynasty. --- Personal injury. --- Philosopher. --- Polonnaruwa. --- Prediction. --- Princeton University Press. --- Rashtrakuta dynasty. --- Reason. --- Reductio ad absurdum. --- Reprimand. --- Requirement. --- Sangam literature. --- Sanskrit. --- Sluice. --- Smuggling. --- South India. --- Tamil Nadu. --- Tamil language. --- Tamil script. --- Thanjavur. --- Theft. --- Trade route. --- Vikrama Chola. --- Vikramaditya. --- Vishnu. --- Warfare. --- Wealth. --- Worship.

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"What is the relationship between politics and morality? Should politicians violate moral constraints to achieve greater goods or to avoid disasters? Is it always wrong for politicians to lie and deceive? In Political Ethics: A Handbook, edited by Andrew Sabl and Edward Hall, a collection of leading experts in the field of political ethics offer an introduction to the key issues in this rapidly growing subfield of political theory. The essays cover a broad range of topics and themes relevant to stable democracies around the world, including the ethics of lobbying, leadership, partisanship, secrecy and whistleblowing, the role of representatives, compromise, emergency powers, political activism, public administration, and political corruption. These essays are written at a level accessible to undergraduates, as well as advanced scholars seeking scholarly introductions to the topics covered. Ultimately, the book considers how to evaluate political conduct from a realistic but ethically demanding standpoint, and offers a clear-eyed analysis of the ethical challenges inherent in political life in the twenty-first century"--

Political ethics. --- A Critique of Pure Tolerance. --- Abuse of power. --- Accountability. --- Activism. --- Attempt. --- Authoritarianism. --- Big lie. --- Bribery. --- Bully pulpit. --- Business ethics. --- Censure. --- Citizens (Spanish political party). --- Civil disobedience. --- Civil service. --- Classified information. --- Climate change denial. --- Common good. --- Consequentialism. --- Consideration. --- Conspiracy theory. --- Corruption. --- Crisis management. --- Cronyism. --- Cruel and unusual punishment. --- Decisionism. --- Deliberation. --- Demagogue. --- Denunciation. --- Deontological ethics. --- Despotism. --- Dictatorship. --- Dirty hands. --- Disparagement. --- Electoral fraud. --- Elitism. --- Ethical dilemma. --- Ethics. --- Externality. --- Fraud. --- Freedom of speech. --- Good and evil. --- Governance. --- Homo sacer. --- Impasse. --- Impose. --- Impunity. --- Individual and group rights. --- Individualism. --- Information asymmetry. --- Injunction. --- Institution. --- John Rawls. --- Judiciary. --- Kleptocracy. --- Legitimacy (political). --- Lobbying. --- Misconduct. --- Misfeasance. --- Moral blindness. --- Moral luck. --- Morality. --- Necessity. --- Nonviolence. --- Obligation. --- Opportunism. --- Oppression. --- Paternalism. --- Pessimism. --- Plausible deniability. --- Politician. --- Politics. --- Precommitment. --- Profession. --- Public administration. --- Public reason. --- Public sphere. --- Pundit. --- Reactionary. --- Realpolitik. --- Reasonable person. --- Representative democracy. --- Reprisal. --- Right-wing politics. --- Rubber stamp (politics). --- Rule of law. --- SPEECH Act. --- Social dilemma. --- Sovereignty. --- Standing (law). --- State actor. --- State capture. --- State of exception. --- Subsidy. --- Toleration. --- Torture. --- Utilitarianism. --- Voting. --- Whistleblower. --- Whistleblowing. --- Wrongdoing.

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Michelle Zerba engages current debates about the relationship between literature and theory by analyzing responses of theorists in the Western tradition to tragic conflict. Isolating the centrality of conflict in twentieth-century definitions of tragedy, Professor Zerba discusses the efforts of modern critics to locate in Aristotle's Poetics the origins of this focus on agon. Through a study of ethical and political ideas formative of the Poetics, she demonstrates why Aristotle and his Renaissance and Neoclassical beneficiaries exclude conflict from their accounts of tragedy. The agonistic element, the book argues, first emerges in dramatic criticism in nineteenth-century Romantic theories of the sublime and, more influentially, in Hegel's lectures on drama and history.This turning point in the history of speculation about tragedy is examined with attention to a dynamic between the systematic aims of theory and the subversive conflicts of tragic plays. In readings of various Classical and Renaissance dramatists, Professor Zerba reveals that strife in tragedy undermines expectations of coherence, closure, and moral stability, on which theory bases its principles of dramatic order. From Aristotle to Hegel, the philosophical interest in securing these principles determines attitudes toward conflict.Originally published in 1988.The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Conflict (Psychology) in literature. --- Tragedy. --- Drama --- Aristotle. --- Aeschylus. --- Aesthetic Theory. --- Anguish. --- Antinomy. --- Antithesis. --- Appeal to emotion. --- Ars Poetica (Horace). --- Averroes. --- Bussy D'Ambois. --- Catharsis. --- Characters of Shakespear's Plays. --- Classical unities. --- Classicism. --- Closed circle. --- Coluccio Salutati. --- Consciousness. --- Contemptus mundi. --- Critical theory. --- Criticism. --- Critique. --- Decorum. --- Deontological ethics. --- Dialectic. --- Disputation. --- Dissoi logoi. --- Divine law. --- Dramatic theory. --- Ethical dilemma. --- Euripides. --- Existentialism. --- Externality. --- Francis Fergusson. --- Good and evil. --- Greek tragedy. --- Hamartia. --- Hannah Arendt. --- Hedonism. --- Hegelianism. --- Hubris. --- Intentionality. --- Irony. --- Irrational Man. --- Irrationality. --- Jacques Derrida. --- Jean Hyppolite. --- Karl Jaspers. --- King Lear. --- Literary criticism. --- Literary theory. --- Lodovico Castelvetro. --- Mental space. --- Mimesis. --- Moral absolutism. --- Moral realism. --- Morality. --- Myth. --- New Thought. --- Nicomachean Ethics. --- On Truth. --- Pathos. --- Philosopher. --- Philosophy. --- Pity. --- Platitude. --- Plautus. --- Poetics (Aristotle). --- Poetry. --- Polonius. --- Pre-Socratic philosophy. --- Prohairesis. --- Quintilian. --- Rationality. --- Renaissance tragedy. --- Republic (Plato). --- Revenge tragedy. --- Rhetoric. --- Romanticism. --- Satire. --- Scholasticism. --- Shakespearean tragedy. --- Sophocles. --- Stephen Greenblatt. --- Suffering. --- Superiority (short story). --- Søren Kierkegaard. --- Teleology. --- The Birth of Tragedy. --- The Marriage of Heaven and Hell. --- The Philosopher. --- Theodicy. --- Theory. --- Thomas Kyd. --- Thought. --- Tragic hero. --- Verisimilitude. --- W. D. Ross. --- William Prynne. --- William Shakespeare.

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This remarkably rich collection of articles focuses on moral questions about war. The essays, originally published in Philosophy & Public Affairs, cover a wide range of topics from several points of view by writers from the fields of political science, philosophy, and law. The discussion of war and moral responsibility falls into three general categories: problems of political and military choice, problems about the relation of an individual to the actions of his government, and more abstract ethical questions as well. The first category includes questions about the ethical and legal aspects of war crimes and the laws of war; about the source of moral restrictions on military methods or goals; and about differences in suitability of conduct which may depend on differences in the nature of the opponent. The second category includes questions about the conditions for responsibility of individual soldiers and civilian officials for war crimes, and about the proper attitude of a government toward potential conscripts who reject its military policies. The third category includes disputes between absolutist, deontological, and utilitarian ethical theories, and deals with questions about the existence of insoluble moral dilemmas.

War --- War (International law) --- Moral and ethical aspects. --- Act of state doctrine. --- Adolf Eichmann. --- Adolf Hitler. --- Aggression. --- Ambiguity (law). --- Analogy. --- Anguish. --- Anti-personnel weapon. --- Anti-social behaviour order. --- Appeasement. --- Attempt. --- Belligerent. --- Collective punishment. --- Collective responsibility. --- Combat. --- Combatant. --- Command responsibility. --- Conscientious objector. --- Conscription. --- Consideration. --- Crime against peace. --- Crime. --- Crimes of War. --- Criminal code. --- Criticism. --- Cruelty. --- Decision Analyst (company). --- Decision-making. --- Declaration of war. --- Demagogue. --- Deontological ethics. --- Determination. --- Deterrence theory. --- Dirty hands. --- Distributive justice. --- Essence of Decision. --- Ethical dilemma. --- Ethics. --- Foreign Policy. --- Foreign policy. --- Hostility. --- Intention (criminal law). --- International law. --- Just war theory. --- Law of the United States. --- Law of war. --- Legal burden of proof. --- Massacre. --- Military dictatorship. --- Military justice. --- Military necessity. --- Military operation. --- Military policy. --- Moral absolutism. --- Moral agency. --- Moral imperative. --- Moral obligation. --- Moral reasoning. --- Moral responsibility. --- Morale. --- Morality. --- Nazi crime. --- Nazism. --- Nuremberg and Vietnam. --- Obligation. --- Pacifism. --- Philosophy and Phenomenological Research. --- Philosophy. --- Politics as a Vocation. --- Precedent. --- Presumption. --- Prisoner of war. --- Probability. --- Probable cause. --- Public international law. --- Punishment. --- Relativism. --- Religion. --- Reprisal. --- Requirement. --- Respondeat superior. --- Ruler. --- Selective Service System. --- Special case. --- Subject (philosophy). --- Summary execution. --- Superior orders. --- The Just Assassins. --- Thought. --- Tort. --- Tribunal. --- Utilitarianism. --- Vicarious liability. --- War crime. --- War effort. --- War of aggression. --- War. --- Warfare. --- World War II. --- Wrongdoing.